Interesting to us too. We weren't involved in the new DS (this picture is the first we've seen of it), so I guess someone at FIRST randomly chose our team number for testing.

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard

I just hope that's not an app running inside an OS...

Looks like a labview app to me. There's no real way that you could run something as complicated as a Classmate without an OS. I certainly understand your concern though - a reboot of the Classmate could take longer than the whole match.

I also noticed that the Wifi indicator is lit, could this mean that we don't need to use a router any more?

Oh, that's an interesting observation. If somehow the disable button, the circuitry on the right (which I assume is for custom inputs like pots), and the USB hub were all integrated together into one box, I would take back my previous post calling it "kludgy."

I imagine the final version will at the very least have some kind of shiny enclosure. I edit:hope that the DS is not an application running on top of an OS either.

Can't say I don't miss IFI though...

I don't see how, when we've already been told we're getting the classmate PC. There's no way this is getting repackaged into something less kludgy. Maybe they'll have all the accessories inside a project box or something. Hopefully this year they have the foresight to include some pullup resistors so we can use non USB joysticks without making everything even more kludgy...

Whatever though. I just hope it works. There's going to be a LOT of standing around for 3 minutes waiting for these to reboot so a match can start if it's anything like last year.